Hippo Integration with PugPig for iPad Magazine Publishing

Integration between Hippo and PugPig provides a powerful and easy framework for managing and publishing to iOS-Powered Mobile Devices.

Hippo, the company setting new standards for how Commercial Open Source Web Content Management can empower audiences and change the way organizations manage Web content announced today that it has completed a seamless and complete integration with PugPig - a new framework that enables you to publish HTML5 content to iOS powered mobile devices. This integration provides Hippo CMS users with a complete content management and publishing framework to easily create beautiful and optimized magazines for the iPad and iPhone platforms.

FileMaker updates FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPad with support for charts, signature capture and printing with AirPrint

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United Kingdom – April 20th, 2011 – FileMaker today added digital signature capture, the ability to view and edit charts created with FileMaker Pro 11, and support for AirPrint to FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad. FileMaker Go is the top-selling business database app for the iPhone and iPad.

Free for existing FileMaker Go users from the iTunes App Store, FileMaker Go 1.2 for iPhone and FileMaker Go 1.2 for iPad now offer:

  • Support for FileMaker Charts, including bar, line, area and pie charts: View, edit and update eye-catching reports (created with FileMaker Pro 11 for Mac and Windows) on the iPhone or iPad. Chart data can come from FileMaker Pro or can be passed through from SQL sources for two-way exchange and analysis of business data. Now data can be easily viewed and updated in beautiful charts from anywhere in the world.

  • Digital signatures on iPhone and iPad: Ideal for confirming receipt of goods, field surveys and more, signatures can be captured on the go, making it easy to sign contracts, invoices and other documents without printing hard copies in advance. Signed documents can be exported to a desktop or uploaded instantly to databases hosted on FileMaker Server.

  • Print anywhere with AirPrint: FileMaker Go takes advantage of AirPrint, the new iOS feature, to print wirelessly to AirPrint-enabled printers. Print everything from reports and forms to name tags and sales receipts on the go, and easily customise and save print options.

  • Enhanced PDF creation: Save and email print-ready PDF files on the iPhone or iPad. Users can send materials in a format that can be easily shared and printed.

UK’s Premier 5-aside Soccer Centres Releases Interactive Football iPhone Application In Partnership with Adactus Ltd

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Goals Soccer Centres has released an innovative iPhone application that provides its growing base of football members with access to their league results and tables.

02.22.2011– London, February 22nd 2011 Goals Soccer Centres announced today that it has released an iPhone application in partnership with mobile experts Adactus Ltd, . With 41 centres in the UK and having opened in Los Angeles, Goals has cemented its strategy to innovate and lead the industry. The application offers its customers real-time access to their own team results and league positions. Free to download from Apple’s iTunes store, this innovative app allows customers to configure their iPhone application to provide information for their preferred soccer centre and monitor their team’s progress. It also uses the unique GPS navigation software on the iPhone to allow new and visiting customers access to the latest navigation technology to ensure they get to their game and event on time for the all important kick off.

Goals chose to work with Adactus Ltd based in Thame, Oxfordshire who were able to provide an advanced user experience that not only builds on the positive national brand created by Goals but also provides a mobile application that offers their members one of the most advanced applications available in terms of functionality and ease of use.

5 a side truly is a whole new ball game at Goals. They already provide an industry-leading advanced website, also provided by Adactus Ltd, which provides interactive “full service” online booking, unique to the industry, and personalised team manager reporting. The Goals mobile application extends this level of service to customers whilst on the move and at their own convenience and is available free of charge to anyone choosing to download it. The website and mobile application really take all the hassle out of organising and playing a game of 5 a side and leaves the team at Goals to focus on the customer experience, which they have as the cornerstone of their market-leading brand position.

Commenting on the new application, Goals Managing Director Keith Rogers said “With the continued expansion of our business into new locations in 2011, I am delighted to introduce the Goals iPhone application to our customers to provide free mobile access to track their team’s progress within their soccer centre. 5-aside football is the fastest growing part of football and we want to make our soccer centre services available to a growing mobile audience”.

Adactus Managing Director Chris Hall said “We have provided Goals with their information systems since 2004 and are delighted to have delivered their first iPhone application. Goals is an example of our ability to provide large scale customised applications with intuitive and mobile friendly user interfaces that can provide Goals customers with a fast and personalised user experience. This is a vital ingredient for any iPhone application that will be used many times”.

Confirmit Flex: A new development platform for creating applications

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OSLO, Norway and NEW YORK, NY – November 17, 2009: Confirmit, a leading global vendor of software for Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback and Market Research, has announced the creation of Confirmit Flex, an innovative new framework that will enable Confirmit, its customers and partners to quickly create new applications for the platform. The framework opens up the Confirmit platform to new developments that take advantage of the latest data collection methods, design technologies and reporting requirements.

Pat Molloy, Chief Strategy Officer at Confirmit explains: “Confirmit Flex is a huge new step for the platform. Our standard development cycle ensures the consistently high performance, security and scalability of the platform, but until now didn’t allow for the speed of change that customers sometimes demand. With Confirmit Flex, we’ve created a way of building fast, agile ‘speedboats’ to run alongside the ‘super tanker’ that is the Confirmit platform.”

Confirmit Flex has two applications running in beta testing, with many Confirmit customers taking advantage of the opportunity to get involved.

- iPhone Surveys: With an increasing number of people using iPhones to access the Web, researchers need to ensure that their surveys provide the same rich user experience in this environment as they do on a PC. When a survey is opened on an iPhone, the application automatically renders the survey into a format which takes advantage of the unique iPhone interface. This produces an excellent user experience, improving response rates and greater survey reach.

- GeoIocation: This application automatically pinpoints the location of survey respondents through their IP address. Users can choose to reject respondents who are outside their key geographies or can flag them for later review. For enhanced clarity, Google Map and Google Earth interfaces provide visualization of respondents’ locations. Researchers can use the application to reduce survey fraud, providing more accurate results from Market Research activities.

Cool App: Joomla client for iPhone

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Several weeks ago, I mentioned the Wordpress for BlackBerry client which allows you to submit articles to your WordPress blog remotely. Recently, CMS Report, was pointed to a Joomla! client for the iPhone, the J Admin Mobile! application.

Similar to Wordpress for BlackBerry, J Admin Mobile! (JAM!) allows you to manage many of the core features of your Joomla! 1.5 site remotely. We can only conclude that the smarter and more Web capable our phones become the more established this trend of moving the CMS client over to mobile devices will become.

JAM! 1.4.0 was recently submitted to the Apple App store with the developers expecting to see the updated version available soon. Some of the new features in JAM! 1.4.0 include:

  • Inserting images into articles
  • Adding users
  • Ability to change the user type (Registered, Author, etc)

Turning the iPhone into a Moodle Server

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Lots of people do interesting things once they've jail-breaked their iPhone. Dan Poltawski is no exception when he tries to turn his once client-only device into a Moodle Server.

Having ended up with a spare iPhone from a recent upgrade I decided to try jail-breaking the old one and see what software was out there away from the restrictions of the app store. I discovered that lighttpd, php and sqlite were all available from the software repositories for download - these three combined are enough to run a Moodle server. So out the window went cleaning my flat and sensible tasks - I had to make my phone into a Moodle server!

Once you start reading the article you will find that his first attempt at installing and using Moodle on his iPhone wasn't that successful. Still, Moodle on the iPhone is an interesting concept. To say the least, the concept is much more interesting than the YouTube video he provides of his experience. Dan, couldn't you at least added some background music or some audio of you swearing at your iPhone?

Looking at multitasking on the iPhone and Palm Pre

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I'm one of the unfortunate souls that is a Verizon customer.  I'm unfortunate in the sense that my cell phone company has been very slow in bringing modern SmartPhones with full browser and Wifi capability under their service plans.  Oh how I would love to have an iPhone or G1 Android in my hand, but neither AT&T nor T-Mobile includes big 'ol South Dakota in their service plans.  But someday things may change and I might get the iPhone or possibly even better, the Palm Pre (we have Spring here!).

I've been extremely interested in the Palm Pre since Palm first made their product announcements earlier this year.  How well the Palm Pre can compete with the Apple iPhone is up in the air, but I'm hopeful.  Today, I really enjoyed this article at CNET, Can a Palm Pre multitask better than an iPhone?

Ever since its January coming-out party at the Consumer Electronics Show, Palm has generated buzz for the Pre unlike any other phone released since Apple's iPhone arrived in June 2007 (that includes impressive phones such as Research in Motion's BlackBerry Bold and HTC's G1 Android phone.) The two phones will be forever compared--not just because of their consumer-oriented styles and emphasis on gesture-based user interfaces, but because of the very real enmity between the proud team that worked on Apple's historic iPhone breakthrough and the ex-Apple executives and engineers attempting to rebuild Palm.

While the iPhone has set the standard for future smartphones, Palm's WebOS delivers two important improvements that the iPhone can't yet match: true multitasking between applications, and a subtle notifications system that doesn't interrupt your train of thought. It does that while unveiling its own stamp on the multitouch user interface that Apple introduced to the masses with the iPhone and finding room for a slide-out hardware keyboard favored by CrackBerry addicts.

Be sure to read the rest of the article. Perhaps, someday Verizon will get smart and get into the game.  Meanwhile, I'll be weighing my options.